About the Authors

Michael Bolton

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Dennis J. Horvath Jr

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Birong Li

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hanna Cortado

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

David Newsom

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Peter White

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Santiago Partida-Sanchez

Santiago.Partida-Sanchez@nationwidechildrens.org (SP); Sheryl.Justice@nationwidechildrens.org (SJ)

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sheryl S. Justice

Santiago.Partida-Sanchez@nationwidechildrens.org (SP); Sheryl.Justice@nationwidechildrens.org (SJ)

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, The Division of Urology, The Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSJ SP PW MB DJH. Performed the experiments: MB DJH BL HC DN. Analyzed the data: MB DN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSJ SP PW. Wrote the paper: SSJ SP MB. Supervised the study: SSJ SP PW.